“The Desmosedici GP has a lot of potential, hopefully we can give the right input and help the two Andreas to try and achieve something great this year. I’m pretty happy and surprised with my lap time to be honest, hopefully the next day we can be a bit more comfortable after sleeping on it.”

Stoner’s fastest lap from Saturday, 2,02.1sec, would have placed him seventh fastest on the first day of testing, ahead of the man who replaced him at HRC in 2013, Marc Marquez.